Andhra saw the El Niño drought coming in February, farmers still lost ₹20,000 an acre: Jagan
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Utharapukhandriga observes Ganesh Nimajjanam on Wednesday, 23 September 2026, along with the rest of Andhra Pradesh.
Temples near Utharapukhandriga
Named places of worship on record
Called Vinayaka Chavithi. Clay idols, the 21-leaf puja and undrallu are central. Community mandapams run for days, the Khairatabad idol in Hyderabad being the largest and drawing the biggest immersion procession.
The regional form observed across Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. How any one household or village keeps it varies, and is not something recorded here.
By population, Utharapukhandriga ranks #9 of 12 villages in Puttur mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Utharapukhandriga is a village of 1,067 people in 277 households (Census 2011) in Puttur mandal, Tirupati district, Andhra Pradesh, the 9th-largest of 12 villages in Puttur mandal. Literacy is 62%, about the same as the mandal average of 63% and the sex ratio is 1,029 women per 1,000 men. It lies 50 km from the Tirupati district centre, 12 km from Karvetinagar, the nearest town, 2 km from Vepagunta railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 517583, served by Puttur post office; the LGD village code is 596410. The nearest hospital or health centre is Chiranjivi Hospital, 4 km away. The population is estimated at 1,162 in 2026, up 9% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Utharapukhandriga →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utharapukhandriga · this village | 1,067 | 62% | — |
| Nandimangalam (R) · Puttur | 167 | 70% | 1.3 km NE |
| Parameswara Mangalam · Puttur | 2,453 | 62% | 1.4 km E |
| Nandimangalam · Chengam | 866 | 67% | 1.4 km NE |
| Nandimangalam · Sholinghur | 1,034 | 63% | 1.4 km NE |
| Nandimangalam · Hosur | 2,602 | 54% | 1.4 km NE |
| Nandimangalam · Kattumannarkoil | 1,132 | 55% | 1.4 km NE |
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Water supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
1 Temple mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors. Residents can add the village jatara and temple festival under Events.
Sources: Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India (Census 2011 + Population Projections 2011-2036) · International Institute for Population Sciences (NFHS-5) · Election Commission of India · data.gov.in (Jal Jeevan Mission, PMAY-G, SBM-G dashboards). Projections may differ from on-the-ground reality by ±20% for individual villages. An asterisk next to a sex-ratio value (—*) flags a Census 2011 figure outside the plausible range of 300–2000 ♀/1000♂; the underlying source row is suppressed pending review.
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